Catharine Mackinnon These words were quoted by the conservative writer Cal Thomas as coming from Professing Feminism, a book which he mistakenly ascribed to Catharine MacKinnon. [2] The passage does appear in that book, but is given as the author's characterization of MacKinnon's views rather than a direct quotation.Instead MacKinnon argues that heterosexuality "institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission" (1982) and that "Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial" (1991).

Catharine Mackinnon The allegation that Catharine MacKinnon equated sex with rape, or suggested that all sex is hostile, seems to have been first made in the October 1986 issue of Playboy. Catharine MacKinnon has denied ever saying anything of the kind. [1]Instead MacKinnon asserts that rape and intercourse are "difficult to distinguish" (1983).